![]() ![]() Radius circa 2000, perhaps? Off-Main Craigie? One OG source swears it’s been since Jasper’s (our 1993 pick for Best Seafood) was hot. ![]() I’ve been trying to remember the last time a Boston restaurant that wasn’t, you know, a twee 30-seat sushi counter ginned up such palpitating demand. Maybe the new lunch shift will calm things down? After three stalkerish weeks of doing the Resy-app tango left me with a 10 p.m., a pair of 5s, and a phantom twitch in the old fingertip tendon, my best guess is the coveted 7-to-9 block is the hot-table equivalent of real estate pocket listings. ![]() When reservations open 30 days out, even so-so time slots get scooped up in minutes. Open since June, the “grand trattoria” occupying the Newbury Boston’s glass-walled top floor-a manic-maximalist fever dream of checkboard tiles, black-and-white stripes, and postcard-caliber cityscapes-is hands down the toughest table in town. And if that doesn’t explode your brain, well, clearly you’ve never tried to get into Contessa. I once got into Contessa for dinner three times in a single week. What a rare vacant table at Contessa, the most in-demand reservation in Boston, would theoretically look like. ![]()
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